Re: blessing db data as utf8

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On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:07:39AM +0300, Gaal Yahas wrote:
> Is there a CDBI way to implement the workaround described here for straight DBI?
>      http://perlmonks.thepen.com/314423.html
> Briefly, the problem is getting perl to think of a string as utf8
> "even when it IS".
> What I'm looking for is a way for Class::DBI to perform the autoconversion
> for me transparently.

I don't really understand the utf8 issues well enough to know whether
this conversion needs to happen at a certain point, but if it's just a
matter of calling Encode::_utf8_on on each value fetched from the
database, you can probably do somehing in sth_to_objects(), or possibly
construct(), or even _init() if there's no problem in doing it on data
you're passing to create() yourself.

It may be better doing it in DBIx::ContextualFetch though, or even in
DBI itself...

Tony